"by Nicol David with eight wins followed by Sarah Fitzgerald five, Susan Devoy four, and Michelle Martin three. Heather McKay remained undefeated in competitive matches for 19 years (between 1962 and 1981) and won sixteen consecutive British Open titles between 1962 and 1977. Previous world number one Peter Nicol stated that he believed squash had a ""very realistic chance"" of being added to the list of Olympic sports for the 2016 Olympic Games, but it ultimately lost out to golf and rugby sevens. The Professional Squash Association (PSA) publishes monthly rankings of professional players: Dunlop PSA World Rankings. Squash (sport)"
"in 1987. Further World Open titles came in 1990 and 1992. For most of her career, the World Open was held biennially, a fact that stopped Devoy potentially doubling her tally. She did, however, win the coveted British Open eight times, a record only beaten by Heather McKay in the 1960s/70s and by Janet Morgan in the 1950s. In 1992, the year of her unexpected retirement, she was the Australian, British, French, Hong Kong, Irish, New Zealand, Scottish, Swedish and World squash champion. In the 1986 New Year Honours, Devoy was appointed a Member of the Order of the British"
"also won the Daily Telegraph Junior Golf Championship in 1991 and won the Girls Amateur Championship in 1992 and 1993. She represented Great Britain & Ireland in the Curtis Cup matches of 1994 and 1996 and played in the 1996 Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Team Championship. McKay was the first international player to be offered a golf scholarship at Stanford University in California where she was a classmate of Tiger Woods (she took a Portuguese literature class with him). She graduated in 1997 with a B.A. in Public Policy having been Pac-10 champion in 1997, Pac-10 All Conference from"
"Janet Morgan Janet Rachael Margaret Morgan (later known by her married name, Janet Shardlow) (1921–1990) was an English squash player who dominated the game in the 1950s. She won the British Open on ten consecutive occasions and was the sport's most famous player until the rise of Heather McKay. Born in Wandsworth, London, Morgan was originally a tennis player who played for Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1946. She quickly turned to squash and in 1948 and 1949 was a losing finalist against Joan Curry. In 1950 she won her first British Open title, beating Curry in the final."
"Janet Morgan Janet Rachael Margaret Morgan (later known by her married name, Janet Shardlow) (1921–1990) was an English squash player who dominated the game in the 1950s. She won the British Open on ten consecutive occasions and was the sport's most famous player until the rise of Heather McKay. Born in Wandsworth, London, Morgan was originally a tennis player who played for Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1946. She quickly turned to squash and in 1948 and 1949 was a losing finalist against Joan Curry. In 1950 she won her first British Open title, beating Curry in the final."
"championships commenced in 1922 as an amateur event and remained so until 1974. In the inaugural event, Joyce Cave defeated her sister Nancy Cave in the final. Both Championships have been played continuously since inception, with the exception of the men's championship in 1934 (when no challenger to F.D. Amr Bey emerged) and during World War 2. The men's and women's events were originally held separately, but have been held as a joint event since 1983. The most successful players in the history of the championships are Australian Heather McKay (née Blundell), who won the women's event 16 consecutive times"
"captured the inaugural title with a 6–9, 9–3, 9–1, 9–4 win over Sue Cogswell in the final. McKay also won the Australian Amateur Championships for 14 consecutive times from 1960 to 1973. When she retired in 1981 at the age of 40, McKay had gone nearly 20 years undefeated (with the only two defeats to her name occurring at the beginning of her career). Since retiring from the top-level game, she has remained active in international Masters level events, and has won two over-45 world championship titles and two over-50 world championship titles. Heather also proved to be a talent"
"a way that didn't feel right"". Barker refused to name the female tennis player involved. Sue Barker Susan Barker, (born 19 April 1956 in Paignton, Devon) is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won fifteen WTA Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam singles title at the 1976 French Open. She reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3. She is now one of the main sports presenters at the BBC, most notably fronting the corporation’s coverage of Wimbledon and A Question of Sport. Barker was born and raised in Paignton,"
"United Kingdom, including association football, golf, tennis, boxing, rugby league, rugby union, cricket, field hockey, snooker, darts, billiards, squash, curling and badminton, all of which are popular in Britain. Another sport invented in the UK was baseball, and its early form rounders is popular among children in Britain. Snooker and darts are popular indoor games: Stephen Hendry is the seven time world snooker champion, Phil Taylor is the 16 time world darts champion. Snooker player Alex Higgins (nicknamed ""The Hurricane"") and darts player Eric Bristow (nicknamed ""The Crafty Cockney"") are credited with popularising each sport. Bodybuilder Reg Park was Mr"
"championship of the sport at the time) in 1962. She then won it again every year for the next 15 consecutive years, losing only two games at the championship during that time. She usually won her finals matches comfortably. In the 1968 championship, she won the final against her compatriot Bev Johnson without dropping a point. In 1976, an unofficial world championship known as the Women's World Squash Championship was held in Brisbane, which McKay won by defeating Marion Jackman in the final 9–2, 9–2, 9–0. The first official women's World Open was held in 1979 in England, and McKay"
"Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ""Women's Doubles"" ""Mixed Doubles"" ""Women's doubles"" ""Mixed doubles"" Heather Olver Heather Olver (born 15 March 1986) is an English badminton player. Her career highlights so far include mixed team and mixed doubles silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, European women’s doubles bronze, and reaching the final of the 2013 London Grand Prix Gold and Scottish Open. She also competed at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. She started playing at the age of six and started when she joined her local club, Waldron Junior BC,"
"two sons and a daughter. Roger Mackay Roger J. Mackay (31 March 1956 – 17 June 2002) was an Australian professional golfer. Mackay turned professional in 1983 and played on both the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Golf Tour. His biggest successes came in Japan, where he won on eight occasions. In Australia he is best remembered for his 1987 win at the Australian PGA Championship. In 1991 he was named Western Australian Sports Star of the Year. Mackay last played professional golf in 2001. He died the following year in Perth at the age of 46. He"
"in other sports, including field hockey, where she was a member of the Australian Women's Hockey Team in 1967 and 1971. In racquetball, she won the American Amateur Racquetball Championship once (1979), the American Professional Racquetball Championship three times (1980–81 and 1984), and the Canadian Racquetball Championship five times (1980 and 1982–85). She was inducted into the USA Racquetball Hall of Fame in 1997. She was a teaching professional at the Toronto Squash Club in the 80s. She worked with up and comer David Wright in an intensive Junior Program. Note: Competed as Heather Blundell from 1962 to 1965. McKay"
"1997, and was a host of the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony from 1994 to 2012 before stepping down in 2013. Barker has hosted BBC Sport's coverage of the Australian Open, the French Open, Queens Club Championships, Eastbourne, the Davis Cup, the ATP World Tour Finals and Wimbledon. Other sporting events she has hosted have included the Grand National (1996–2006), the Derby (2001–2007), Racing at Ascot and Longchamp (1995–1999), Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury, the Great North Run, World Athletics Championships and European Athletics Championships (1999–2009), BBC Sports Personality of the Year (1994–2012), Commonwealth Games (1994–2010)"
"used for badminton. A book about the sport, ""Sticke Tennis"" by Graham Tomkinson, was published in 2004. A book ""The Rise and Fall of Sticke Tennis 1874-1939"" by Nigel Courtenay à Brassard, was published by Ronaldson Publications in 2017. Reigning World Men's Singles Champion - Howard Paul Williams (Hartham Park) Reigning World Women's Singles Champion - Shireena Perera (Shimla) Reigning World Doubles Champions - Adrian Chivers and Hugh Richman (Hartham Park) https://www.sportshistorian.co.uk Stické Stické, also called stické tennis, is an indoor racquet sport invented in the late 19th century merging aspects of real tennis, racquets and lawn tennis. It derives"
"include 2016 British Open Champion and 2016 Olympic Silver Medalist Sweden's Henrik Stenson, 2013 US Open Champion and 2016 Olympic Gold Medalist England's Justin Rose, 2011 Masters Tournament Champion Charles Schwartzel, 2010 British Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen and 2008 Masters Tournament Champion Trevor Immelman. The tournament qualifying system is modeled after the World Cup soccer tournament, where regional tournaments are held to allow countries to qualify and play. Kerdyk also chaired the Junior Orange Bowl Golf Tournament in Miami for several years, one of the premier invitational amateur golf tournaments in the world. In 2014, the championship announced a girl’s"
"world in 1998 and 1999. She won three consecutive World Open championships from 1993 to 1995, and was a finalist in all the World Opens from 1992 to 1999 except 1996; she also won six consecutive British Opens from 1993 to 1998. She represented her country at the 1996 and 1999 Squash World Cups, and won gold medals in the sport at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games in the women's singles and mixed doubles. She also won the Australian Open in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, and 1999. At the end of 1999 she announced her retirement, saying"
"In 2016 she received an honorary degree, Doctor honoris causa, from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, her alma mater. She has been named as one of the three most dangerous people in the world by the tobacco industry. https://www.world-heart-federation.org/news/world-congress-of-cardiology-cardiovascular-health-2018-opens-in-dubai/ Dr Judith Mackay - World Heart Federation award , Dubai 2018 https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/profiles/graduation/1960s/judith-mackay University of Edinburgh She plays golf and practises taichi, her favourite being the 56-sword programme. Judith Mackay Judith Longstaff Mackay, SBS, OBE, JP, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lon) (born 1943 in Yorkshire, England) is a British-born and Hong Kong–based medical doctor and international tobacco control advocate who has led a"
"Fran Marshall Fran Marshall (12 May 1930 - ?? 2011) was a retired squash player from England. She won the British Open in 1961, defeating Ruth Turner in the final in straight sets 9–3, 9–5, 9–1. She was also the runner-up at the championship in 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1969. She also won the Scottish Open in 1962 beating Heather McKay in straight games, making her the last woman to defeat Heather McKay in squash. Marshall was raised in Kenya, and represented Kenya in tennis at the 1960 Wimbledon Championships and was part of the Kenyan team at the"
"in Maresfield near Uckfield in Sussex. She trains at the Le Tennis tennis club in the village. A club known for its success of producing quality tennis players. From 2016 to 2018 Watson was in a relationship with fellow tennis player Lloyd Glasspool. Heather Watson Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player and a Wimbledon mixed doubles champion. She is a former British No. 1 and current British No. 2 behind Johanna Konta She won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Henri Kontinen. In October 2012, Watson won her first"
"wife Heather, who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2006: ""In terms of what's going through my heart, there's obviously somebody who is watching from up above there, and I know she'd be very proud of me. But I think she'd be more proud of my two boys and them at home watching more than anything else. It's been a long journey to get here"". With Clarke's triumph in The Open at Royal St George's, it was the first time since 1910 where one country (other than the United States) had different golfers win consecutive majors. Rory McIlroy, also"
"and was declared Rookie of the Year. In total she has won thirteen times on the LPGA Tour. The 1988 U.S. Women's Open remains her only LPGA major, but she won the Women's British Open in 1994, when it was recognised as a major championship by the Ladies European Tour, but not by the LPGA Tour. Her best finish on the LPGA Tour money list is third in 1994, and she also came in the top ten in the money list in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Throughout her career she has played on the Ladies European Tour each season, as"
"by men and women of all ages, with all primary schools participating in the sport. see: http://www.tryrugby.gg/index.php/tag_rugby/ As Guernsey has the second oldest tennis club in the world, at Kings, with courts built in 1875, you would be quite correct in saying that Tennis is a sport Guernsey loves. With six indoor and outdoor facilities at a number of locations, clubs are associated to the Lawn Tennis Association Guernsey's Heather Watson is a world ranked tennis player and WTA title holder. Competing for Team GB in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, and winning Wimbledon Mixed Doubles in 2016 Guernsey"
"Heather Watson Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player and a Wimbledon mixed doubles champion. She is a former British No. 1 and current British No. 2 behind Johanna Konta She won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Henri Kontinen. In October 2012, Watson won her first WTA singles title at the Japan Open, becoming the first British female to win a WTA singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988. In her junior career, Watson won the US Open and gold at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. She reached No."
"Open. She also was a women's doubles silver medalist at the Olympic Games in 1988 and 1996 (both times partnering Jana Novotná). Suková helped Czechoslovakia win the Fed Cup four times, in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1988. She also teamed with Miloslav Mečíř to win the inaugural Hopman Cup for Czechoslovakia in 1989. Over the course of her career, Suková won 10 singles titles and 69 doubles titles. Despite retiring from the professional tour in 1998, she was given a wild card into the 2006 Wimbledon mixed doubles tournament with her brother Cyril Suk. They lost their first round match."
"Open win of 1976, Barker said: ""I'm still incredibly proud of what I achieved."" Upon retiring from tennis Barker became a commentator and sports reporter for Australia's Channel 7 in 1985 before going on to anchor tennis coverage for British Sky Broadcasting in 1990. In 1993, Barker joined the Wimbledon coverage on the BBC and now anchors the two-week-long broadcast for the network. Barker has branched out since joining the BBC, becoming one of their chief sports presenters. She is currently the presenter of the long-running sports quiz show ""A Question of Sport"", having replaced the late David Coleman in"
"2011 World Ladies British Open Junior Champion - won 3 times - 2008 / 2009 / 2010 World Ladies British Open Under 21 Champion - 2013 EASB - Ladies Champion - 2010 EASB - Ladies Tour winner - 2010 Rileys - Ronnie O'Sullivan search for a star area champion - 2010 Derbyshire Ladies Champion - 2012 Derbyshire Under 15 Champion - 2010 Derby Institutes Association Doubles Champion (with Jamie Bodle) - 2013 Derby Junior Snooker Champion - 2011 Cueball Snooker Champion - 2011 Cueball Haiti Charity Plate Champion - 2010 Derbyshire Team Champion - won 4 times - 2011 /"
"darts, basketball, mixed martial arts and cage fighting have made regular appearances on the calendar. During the 1948 Summer Olympics, the venue hosted the Olympic boxing, Olympic diving, Olympic swimming, and Olympic water polo events. The Horse of the Year Show was held there from 1959–2002. It hosted the final of the Whyte and Mackay Premier League Darts 2009. Whyte and Mackay Premier League Darts also hosted the playoff finals in 2010 at Wembley Arena, when Phil Taylor hit two nine-dart-finishes in the final and became the first player to achieve two nine-darters in one match. The 888.com 2011 Premier"
"her in the final in three sets. At the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth she was a singles runner-up to Australian Nancye Bolton in 1947 and won the title in 1949 and 1950, against Quertier and Mary Terán de Weiss in the final respectively. In 1946 and 1950 she was part of the British team that took part in the Wightman Cup, the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. Joan Curry Patricia Joan Curry was an English squash and tennis player who won the British Open Squash Championships three times in a row"
"title eight times. Maria Sharapova was the defending champion in women's singles, but lost in the final to Serena Williams. This championship was the third time in grand slam history that two multiple slam sets were accomplished in two different disciplines, and that was Serena Williams in Women's Singles, and her fellow countrymen Bob and Mike Bryan in Men's Doubles. At the 1969 US Open, Rod Laver won his multiple slam set in Men's Singles, and his fellow countryman Ken Rosewall did in Men's Doubles. At the 2012 French Open, Mahesh Bhupathi won a multiple slam set in Mixed Doubles,"
"British Opens. Tennis tournaments have been held in Ashton Park. Here, players including John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Monica Seles and Pete Sampras have played in competition. West Kirby FC is the town's senior football club, which plays in the West Cheshire League and plays its matches at Marine Park, Greenbank Road. West Kirby Ladies FC was officially established in 2017 and also play their matches at Marine Park. The town has one of the largest junior football clubs in the North West, with over 90 teams and 1,000 players at West Kirby United. The Wasps section play on Greenbank Road"
"went on to win British Open titles, 7 titles over 8 years, the only time his supremacy over the championship was broken, he lost to fellow Pakistani and his cousin Roshan Khan. Pakistani control over the British Open and the World Open which was created in 1976, The names of such great maestros such as Azam Khan, Roshan Khan, Mo Khan, Qamar Zaman, Jahangir Khan, and Jansher Khan have dominated the sport. Of these, Jahangir Khan is considered by many to be the greatest player ever the grace a squash court. During his career he won the World Open six"
"Roger Mackay Roger J. Mackay (31 March 1956 – 17 June 2002) was an Australian professional golfer. Mackay turned professional in 1983 and played on both the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Golf Tour. His biggest successes came in Japan, where he won on eight occasions. In Australia he is best remembered for his 1987 win at the Australian PGA Championship. In 1991 he was named Western Australian Sports Star of the Year. Mackay last played professional golf in 2001. He died the following year in Perth at the age of 46. He was survived by his wife,"